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...both fun and profit, Armand Hammer, 86, diversified his legendary business acumen into Arabian horses five years ago. The two top stallions of his 94-horse stable are the U.S.S.R.'s Pesniar and Poland's El Paso, both plucked from behind the Iron Curtain with the Occidental Petroleum chairman's patented blend of bucks and brass. Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski at first refused to sell El Paso, which he called "a national treasure," but a million dollars from Hammer helped change the Premier's mind. Hammer was in Florida last week for a show...
...curtain rose June 7 and will not descend until July 22. In the interim, 30 theatrical companies, rep resenting 13 countries and ranging from the four square traditional to the cryptically avantgarde, will have shown their wares at Los Angeles' Olympic Arts Festival. By last week the offerings already had a definite, almost made-in-California stamp: bold, even daring, with an emphasis on the visual and spectacular...
Predictably good was the curtain raiser, England's Royal Shakespeare Compa ny in a production of Much Ado About Nothing, which ran through last week...
...forbidding its splendid team of athletes to participate in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the Soviet Union is damaging the only appealing aspect of its image as perceived by a majority of people on this side of the Iron Curtain. It is a vengeful and unsporting act. On the other hand, nobody is indispensable. I am ready to bet that there are plenty of athletes who are secretly rubbing their hands at the prospect of reaping a medal where before they had no chance...
...this be Rigoletto? The curtain rises on a mid-20th century New York City hotel ballroom instead of a 16th century Mantuan ducal palazzo; the Duke and his courtiers are not nobles but crime lords, and Rigoletto is a bartender, not a jester. The second scene takes place in a Little Italy tenement where Rigoletto has secreted his daughter, Gilda, and where she is wooed by the Duke, who sports a high school warmup jacket. The finale is set in a seedy, Hopperesque waterfront dive. When the Duke sings his famous La donna e mobile aria, in English, he first...